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“It’s one thing about the money. We’d be willing to negotiate the money. [But] he’s trying to take away our human rights.” So says Laurie Bauer, a 51 year old library media specialist in Wisconsin, speaking about the governor’s effort to introduce budget cutting reforms to public sector unions. Really? You want to make this about human rights while simultaneously arguing against right-to-work laws? Wisconsin | Read More »

Anti-business Obama is back in business. There for a while it looked like President Obama was actually going to make friends with America’s businesses. In December he met a group of 20 chief executives, the latest in a series of meetings designed to thaw the icy relations between the White House and business leaders. At the end of the meetings Obama said, “I feel very | Read More »

Warning: Doom and gloom ahead. Following the State of the Union, Slate writer John Dickerson made an interesting observation about President Obama’s mood. President Obama has been more upbeat in 2011 than he said he was going to be. Last year he promised America a tough conversation about cutting the deficit. “If we are concerned about debt and deficits, then we’re going to have to | Read More »

The Democrats’ cynical gamble now looks about as smart as betting on Pittsburgh in the Super Bowl. The gamble was despite voters saying they want to reduce the deficit, when push comes to shove they will vote out the politicians who made the cuts. Washington Post blogger Greg Sargent explained the rationale in a recent post , Don’t look now, but there are increasing signs | Read More »

Democrats love to paint the picture of Republicans cozying up to lobbyists. Their always either eating lunch in some impossibly upscale place where average folk couldn’t even sniff a reservation, or in some dark, smoke filled, bar smoking cigars and sipping Scotch, their pinky finger stuck out for good measure. The story goes, Republicans are in it for the money, Democrats are the ones left | Read More »

The U.S. Senate voted on Wednesday to get rid of a small part of the Obamacare bill. The eliminated provision was a requirement that all businesses submit a 1099 tax form on all purchases of goods and services of more than $600. It was designed to ensure that businesses actually keep up with and pay the taxes they owe. Your probably asking what the heck | Read More »

Judge Vinson just placed himself in the upper echelons of liberal’s shit list. Apparently liberal ideologues just can’t imagine that anyone could find a flaw in their greatest of achievements – Obamacare. “There’s something thoroughly odd and unconventional about the analysis,” said one White House official. Really? The best critique you can come up with is “odd” and “unconventional”? This guy is clearly a legal | Read More »

High speed rail can travel up to 160 miles per hour. Pretty darn fast. The only downside is, it wastes taxpayer money almost as quickly. The budgetary history of government rail projects is an ugly one. In fact, after some cursory research, I could not find one single high speed rail project in the world that didn’t receive an enormous government subsidy. Not one! Japan | Read More »

We’re in deep trouble. There is simply no other conclusion you can take away from yesterday’s CBO Report. In their “Budget and Economic Outlook,” the CBO said that the 2011 deficit will hit $1.48 trillion – nearly 40% higher than estimates the CBO made earlier in the year. That’s even larger than the $1.41 trillion deficit we racked up in 2009. It also represents the | Read More »

In last night’s State of the Union, president Obama took a page out of the Republican playbook. Obama said , “If a bill comes to my desk with earmarks inside, I will veto it.” Seems straightforward enough. In fact, it is something that Congressional Republicans have been doing since March. As then-Whip Eric Cantor wrote in an op-ed last October, “House Republicans took an unprecedented | Read More »